Oghenekaro Etebo was on parade for Getafe during Sunday’s 3-0 home loss to Sevilla in a Spanish La Liga game.
Lobi Stars of Makurdi missed the chance to return to the top of the Nigeria Professional Football League table following their 0-0 with Plateau United on Sunday.
Nigerian international Alex Iwobi started for Everton in his first return to the Emirate stadium since his summer move from Arsenal.
Nigerian striker Anthony Okpotu scored a brace to lead his team US Monastir to a flawless win over Stade Tunisien in the Tunisia ligue 1 encounter on Sunday.
Nigerian striker Simeone Nwankwo was on score sheet for his Italian Serie B side Crotone in their league game against Pescara on Sunday.
New Orleans Pelicans center Jahlil Okafor has committed to representing Nigeria at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Coach of Nasarawa united FC Abubakar Arikya has expressed delight after his team defeated Enyimba 2-0 in one of Sunday’s NPFL match day 21 fixture ending the Peoples Elephant’s 6 games winning streak before the game.
Coach of NPFL leading side Plateau united Abdul Maikaba has expressed satisfaction at the turn of event at the Aper Aku stadium after the visiting Plateau united side settled for a share of the spoil playing out a scoreless draw against host team Lobi stars.
Maikaba speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said afterward that the result mean Plateau united still maintain status quo and that the result will help motivate the team to continue to do well and have even more get more positive results.
Maikaba also added that the consistency Plateau united is showing recently excites him more in the team’s quest for the season.
“This result will motivate us to achieve better results in the future and more especially at this point we are in the first position while Lobi stars is in the second position and getting the point here mean we still remain in the first position.
”It will motivate my team more especially at our next home game so that we can consolidate on our present position. I’m so excited, I’m excited not because of the draw but because of the consistency shown by my team.”
Coach of Nigeria’s men wrestling national team Victor Kodie is hopeful that the Nigerian men wrestling national team wrestlers will weigh in positively and qualify a good number ahead of the Olympic qualifiers in Morocco.
The coach also stressed that the level of competition in men wrestling on the continent is tougher compared to the women.
Kodie speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said he will be working hard to ensure they wrestlers get better and improve on time to brighten their chances of Olympic qualification for the Tokyo games.
He also added that he hopes they will be opportune to go with as many as possible boxers for the qualifiers.
Coach of Nigeria’s women wrestling national team Akuh Purity has expressed confidence in the ability of Nigeria’s women wrestling team to go through and record almost a clean sweep of qualification tickets ahead of the 2020 wrestling event.
Purity speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the form shown by the wrestlers at the recently concluded Africa wrestling championship in Algeria is good enough to have inspired such level of confidence and stressed that he is sure about 95 percent of his athletes will secure qualification for the Olympics.